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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Ruby Trees: Tomlin’s Tree

Earlier this week I mentioned my Ruby Trees (click here for the full story). In short, I make a new themed Christmas tree every year in honor of my grandmother, Ruby. This year was no different and I had to make a new themed tree. With the newest member of our family (Tomlin) as my inspiration, I’m excited to share with you our Steeler tree.

I purchased a black and yellow tree and put black and yellow glass balls and football ornaments on the branches.

For the tree topper, I made a Lombardi Trophy. For those of your who don’t know, this is the trophy won at the Super Bowl, named after a former Green Bay Packers coach. And yes, the Steelers have 6 of these silver beauties :-) Anyways, I wrapped some silver ribbon around a styrofoam cone and glued a silver ornament on top. Ta da! Lombardi Trophy :-)

For the tree skirt I used a couple of our Terrible Towels.

We put the tree in Tomlin’s room and she loves it :-)

What do you think? This has got to be one of our favorite Ruby Trees :-)

I LOVE this! The Ruby trees and Tomlin's tree - so adorable! I can't even believe you got all of that stuff together so quickly and on top of all the other Christmas-y stuff - again, I'm very impressed with you and your celebrations and crafty stuff! : )